Detailed Description
This project is a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) designed to demonstrate to Nedbank how a full-scale ideas crowdsourcing platform could look and behave. The goal was to create a space where employees are encouraged to submit, refine, and collaborate on innovative ideas that support the bank’s strategic initiatives.
The prototype showcases the end-to-end experience—from initial challenge announcement to idea submission and review—allowing stakeholders to validate concepts, gather feedback, and plan for a production-ready rollout.
Crowdsourcing Capabilities
- Employee portal to browse active innovation challenges and campaigns.
- Guided idea submission with fields for problem, solution, and expected impact.
- Voting and commenting to help surface the most promising ideas.
- Basic status indicators to show ideas as submitted, in review, or selected.
- Responsive layout designed for both desktop and internal devices.
Admin & Platform Features
- Challenge management tools for creating and closing innovation campaigns.
- Admin view to review, shortlist, and track ideas from across the organisation.
- Lightweight analytics to show engagement and idea submission volumes.
- Secure, cloud-hosted architecture using Django, PostgreSQL, and Nginx.
- Built as an MVP to validate user flows and gain stakeholder buy-in before full production.